Table 1: Smoking pattern characteristics in the adult population. Maracaibo, Venezuela.
p | ||||||
p5th | p25th | p50th | p75th | p95th | ||
Age (Years) | < 0.0* | |||||
Non-smokers | 18 | 24 | 35 | 48 | 67 | |
Smokers | 20 | 28 | 40 | 50 | 60 | |
Former smokers | 23 | 36 | 48 | 56 | 69 | |
Age of initiation (years) | 0.08** | |||||
Smokers | 14 | 16 | 19 | 25 | 36 | |
Former smokers | 14 | 16 | 18 | 24 | 35 | |
Intensity (Cigarette/day) | 0.28** | |||||
Smokers | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 20 | |
Former smokers | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 40 | |
Time smoking (Years) | - | |||||
Smokers | 1 | 6 | 16 | 28 | 40 | |
Time without smoking (Years) | - | |||||
Non-smoker | 0.6 | 3 | 10 | 20 | 35 |
*Kruskal Wallis test; **U Mann-Whitney test.